Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
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From Nintendo.com.au.
Steam [ add images ]
From the Steam store page.
Official page > Artwork [ add images ]
Children of the Clone
Lost masterpieces & miscellaneous gems by maestro Jim Guthrie in the key of Sword & Sworcery. Compositions created on a Playstation One using MTV Music Generator 2000 - 2003. A significant inspiration for Superbrothers & the S:S&S EP project. The 64-bit Jim Guthrie portrait in this artwork is by illustrator Steve Courtney.
New Record
Sword & Sworcery LP is joined by the new record Children of the Clone at Jim Guthrie's Internet Record Store.
A Cozy Yuletide 2011
A painting created as the winter solstice loomed in the year 2011 (the year in which S:S&S EP was made available), built upon an S:S&S EP sketch generated in pre-production, published as S:S&S EP was going on sale.
Sharper & Smoother on iOS 5
An illustration depicting a horned warrior holding a sharpened blade in the style of Robert E. Howard's famed Cimmerian. This warrior is standing beside The Archetype, the smooth-talking cigar-smoking researcher who greets & guides participants through the psychosocial experiment known as Superbrothers:Sword & Sworcery EP. This artwork was put together to mark S:S&S EP's 'sharper & smoother' iOS 5 update in October 2011, and the artwork is available here for folks to use as an iPad or iPhone wallpaper if they so choose.
Jim Guthrie
Created in late February 2010 to promote a rock show featuring Jim Guthrie & His Litter at the El Mocambo in Toronto on March 26th.
Another Yuletide
Created for family, friends, teletex readers & internet pals for the yuletide season of the year 2010.
Touch
Image captured from the start of Side A from S:S&S EP, released for #screenshotsaturday on Saturday, November 27 2010.
Process Wallpaper
Far left: rough digital schema created by Mr. Clay Morrow in a free-to-use Lego design tool for the electric computer.
Centre: the original photograph of the Lego sculpture by Mr. Clay Morrow at a research facility in Burbank, Calfornia.
Far right: the same photograph after color correction and post processing at the Superbrothers laboratory in Toronto.
Lego Scythian
Lego sculpture constructed, staged & photographed in late March by Clay Morrow & his sons Ever & Levi, Teletex readers from Burbank, California, in late March 2010.
Clay writes:
Having spent countless hours playing with Lego and then later with an NES and its pixels I've always felt a connection between the two! S&S really struck a chord with me and my kids, and it has us revisiting some old videogame systems that I had in storage.
Retro HD
Left: a sprite of The Scythian from S:S&S EP.
Right: a lego sculpture of The Scythian constructed, posed, lit & photographed by Mr. Clay Morrow and his sons Ever & Levi at a research facility in Burbank, California.
Frazetta
"And let me say this: copying someone else is not art."
Created to mark the passing of art legend Frank Frazetta, whose visual interpretations of Robert E. Howard's 'sword and sorcery' stories, created in the mid 60s, redefined the fantasy subgenre and have exerted a tremendous influence since then.
GDC yeah you know me
Created to express the S:S&S EP team's naked enthusiasm for GDC 2010.
Exp
Created in January 2010 to communicate the time, date & location of the first showing of S:S&S EP at a Hand Eye Society social unofficially named 'Exp' on February 4th 2010 at Unit Bar, 1198 Queen St. West in Toronto.
Yuletide
Originally created as location concept artwork, then re-purposed & distributed to family & friends as a greeting card.
First Look
Created to accompany the announcement of the S:S&S EP project.
Superbrothers HQ Official page > Artwork [ add images ]
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Album design for Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies.
Front cover by Superbrothers Inc. for Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies.
Back cover by Superbrothers Inc. for Jim Guthrie's Sword & Sworcery LP - The Ballad of the Space Babies.
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Superbrothers Official HQ page [ add images ]
Post: Inconsolable
Most of the artwork in this post was captured by staff at Superbrothers from a playthrough of Sword & Sworcery's climactic Session IV. The funeral pyre painting excerpted below was is by Superbrothers staff and it was included in the physical package for Scntfc's Moon Grotto 7".
Audience member and Sword & Sworcery participant Erica Mathews writes:
"...Sword & Sworcery’s constant reminders of the player’s presence, combined with its distinct aesthetic and easy-yet-engaging gameplay, made for the most completely absorbing video game I have ever experienced. Its violations of the conventional boundaries of game and reality and periodic discussion of the player’s psyche made me feel like I was engaged in an experiment, as much upon the world of pixels before me as upon myself. The game’s setting and characters felt that real to me."
"Memories of the day’s progress in the story relaxed me to sleep several nights; as an insomniac with a tendency to see the sinister in the most innocent of media, I can tell you that this is an accomplishment in itself, that the experience was purely positive while I played."
"But I meander still. To get closer to my point, if such a point exists, let me speak of The Scythian."
"I wanted to help her, to accompany her on her woeful errand. In the end, I think I truly wanted to be Cosmic Friends Forever."
"Perhaps I should praise the writers for actually breaking the law of protagonic immortality."
"Perhaps it would have been trite if the Scythian had survived her woeful errand."
"Perhaps it also speaks to her courage and selflessness that she should pursue her quest, knowing the final consequences."
"Whether or not this is the case, the Scythian’s fate as a martyr hit me like a blind curve at 80mph. I don’t think I started to wonder if she would indeed die until Dogfella’s Megatome entries explicitly mentioned martyrdom somewhere in the third session."
"Perhaps if I had, I would not have taken the Scythian’s death so unhappily."
"As it stands, I have been overwhelmed with grief since the end of the game–unexpectedly so, since, after all, it was Just A Game. "
"I hesitate to even listen to the soundtrack in spite of its great beauty and positive associations, afraid that it will only remind me of how upset I was when I watched the final scene..."
"...how I kept hoping the Scythian would be alive somehow when Logfella scooped her out of the river..."
"...and how I had to finally resign myself to her death at the funeral pyre."
"If I could travel to the Caucus Mountains and find the spot, my tears would pour out on the meadow where her ashes were scattered."
"In my mind, at least, I do travel there, seeking solace from her promise of eternal cosmic friendship."
"I remain inconsolable."
Official site [ add images ]
rock/talk (2010)
News.
tidbits (2009)
The first look of the game.
update + sale! (2012)
Advertisement.
update + sale! (2012)
Creation of site dedicated for fan work.
autumn equinox sale (2011)
Advertisement.
android launch & winter solstice sales (2013)
Android platform announcement.
get up-to-date on iPad three (2012)
Ipad update announcement.
iphone & ipod touch compatible (2011)
iPhone & iPod Touch platforms announcement.
iphone & ipod touch compatible (2011)
iPhone & iPod Touch platforms announcement.
iphone & ipod touch compatible (2011)
iPhone & iPod Touch platforms announcement.
maybe a time of miracles (2012)
Soundtrack advertising.
scientific american's moon grotto 7" (2011)
Advertisement.
mac, linux & pc + bundle (2012)
Respective platforms announcement.
sworcery a/v jam (2012)
Announcement: Fan artwork site.
live show in toronto (2011)
Live concert announcement.
the time is nowruz (2012)
Soundtrack advertising: vinyl limited edition.
summer solstice sale (2011)
Advertisement.
point & click? (2012)
Announcing a new edition.
Site icon.
sworcery sales infographic (2013)
Graphic of sales.
S:S&S EP iPad is go (2011)
Ipad platform announcement.
gdc 2010
News
iphone & ipod touch compatible (2011)
iPhone & iPod Touch platforms announcement.
official remix record (2012)
Album advertising.
event (2010)
Even announcement.
iTunes Store [ add images ]
From the iTunes store page.
Google Play [ add images ]
From the Google Play Store.
Mac App Store [ add images ]
From the iTunes store page.
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